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TgthYear --- No. 59 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 21, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
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Season's aftermath
University employee James Hanvey labors hard to clean up Me-morial
Stadium following the Tigers' disappointing defeat Sat-urday
to the Kansas Jayhawks. Here, Hanvey lines up soda tra--
Kevin Grace
ys for cleaning Later, he will steam the trays and pack them up
for use during next year's home games, which include contests
with perennial powers Oklahoma and Nebraska
Priest jailed
FORTVILLE, Ind ( UPI) - A Catholic
I pnest arrested in a state police raid en a
I church bmgo game Tuesday called the ex-perience
" sad and bewildering," but said he
was relieved all charges against him were
dropped.
The Rev. Joseph S. Kos was released
from Hancock County Jail Tuesday after he
refused to be released on his own recogni-zance
Monday night
All charges were dropped Tuesday
against him and Paul D. Terrell, who was
monitoring the money in the bmgo game.
The two men were arrested, on misde- -
meaner gambling charges when five state
!
police officers raided the small town church
Monday night Police confiscated $ 653.35
from the game.
" It's very sad that there are many crimes
to be investigated here, and they are choos-ing
to raid" bmgo games, Kos said.
State Police spokesman Ken
Hollingsworth said police raided the church
after receiving a complaint about the gam-bling
and repeatedly warning the churcn.
execeiioii date, for Johns
Court rejects appeals
of two other murderers
JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) The Missouri Su-preme
Court Tuesday scheduled a January execu-tion
for the slayer of a St. Louis teenager and re-jected
the appeals of two other murderers.
In a two- senten- ce order, the court overruled a
motion for a second hearing of an appeal by Ste-phen
K. Johns. The court then set Jan. 24 for his
execution in the gas chamber at the Missouri
State Penitentiary.
The court rejected the appeal of hired killer Al-lan
J Bannister, also facing a sentence of death,
but did not set an execution date.
The capital murder conviction of Bobbie Gene
Stuckey was upheld m another ruling. Stuckey is
not facing execution, having been sentenced to life
imprisonment without possibility of parole for 50
years
Johns' appeal, first rejected by the court last
month, involved his conviction in St. Louis Circuit
Court for the 1982 execution- styl- e slaying of Don
Voepel during a service- statio- n robbery. The
crime netted Johns about $ 248
Johns and Bannister are two of 27 murderers
held under the death sentence in Missouri. Only
Johns and Maurice Byrd, convicted of killing four
people, are facing execution dates, with Byrd sen-tencedto
die Dec. 13
State prosecutors expect stays to be granted for
both Johns and Bannister, and that several years
will elapse for continuation of legal appeals before
execution of either killer becomes likely
No death sentence has been carried out in Mis-souri
since 1565
Bannister was sentenced to death by a McDo-nald
County jury for the 1982 murder of Darrell W
Ruesiman at a Joplin mobile home park
A Grundy County circuit court jury convicted
Stuckey in the 19S1 slaying of Larry Wilson, a man
he met who was trying to market hogs at a
livestock sale in Mexico, Audrain County Stuckey
told Wilson a farmer in Monroe County would pay
higher pnees for the hogs, and Wilson drove with
him to visit the prospective buyer.
During the trip, Stuckey attacked Wilson, using
a metal bar to knock him unconscious He later fa-tally
shot Wilson, and drove to Iowa where he at-tempted
to sell the victim's hogs
g& A JT& j
MEXICO CITY ( UPI) Army
troops Tuesday poked through the
charred ruins of a working class
Mexico City suburb in a grisly
search for more victims of gas ex-plosions
and fire that Red Cross offi-cials
said claknsd the lives of at
least 544 people.
Authorities said another 1,500 peo-ple
were injured in the holocaust
that erupted early Monday when a
gas trues exploded near a gas distri-bution
center in San Juan Ixhuate- pe- c,
one of several impoverished
towns clustered on Mexico City's
northern edge.
Ten thousand were left homeless
in file worst industrial disaster in
Mexican history.
More than 24 hours after the pre-dawn
explosions, small fires still
blazed in the barren neighborhood
and the smell of gas and burned
0esh hung thiefcin the air.
Chunks of walls, shattered glass
and broken furniture littered the
blackened neighborhood, where
whole blocks of houses were de-stroyed
Scattered on fee ground
were charred carcasses of dogs and
other animals, a human foot, and the
body of a horse burned as be stood
tiedtoaraOing.
Red Cross spdtesman Jose Cald- -
ron said the bodies of 544 pecpSe
1 killed in the Ore had been recovered.
He said that because of the severe
bums covering most of fee dead,
oiuy 317 bodieshad been identified.
I
Families sift nibble Pago 3A
" It is very probable that the death
toll win continue to rise," Calderon
said.
Hie state- ru- n energy company,
Pemex, said investigators had not
determined the original cause of the
disaster. It was triggered by a fire
on a liquid gas tanker truck that
spread to tanks of the Unigas Co.
and then to a Pemex gas storage
center. A Pemex spokesman identi-fied
the gas involved in the explosion
asamixture of butane and propane.
Residents reported at least a doz-en
explosions followed the first blast.
Yards from the blasted storage
center, which distributed gas for use
in homes, army troops dressed in
combat fatigues and 8,500 police offi-cers
walked tnrough the barren ru- in- s.
searching the rubble for victims.
" It smells like burned bodies," one
soldier told a reporter at one pile of
debris. " Well start looking here."
The group of soldiers, wearing face
masks against the stench, began
tossing aside cement chunks and
splintered wool in searched victims,
a scene repeated throughout the 146- mi- le
square area.
The pre- daw- n explosion sent bril-liant
red and orange flames swirling
a mile into the sky, transforming
darkness to daylight and sending
thousands of terrified residents flee-ing
their homes.
r-- f DealhTolB Rises h hi i n . 1 1 id I,, vi y i i u h i i i I..
I ill I I III I M lj IV M II I ll
I ll i iplo kjii
it ii ih in ul iili if
I) llhi il . it I it iiili liikmii hit is
it i fi Ijtucoea
C- " "
IIS Up,
Red Cross spefeeswoman Rosa
Maria Servin Ruiz said, " Another 1,- 5- 00
to 1400 people were iniured and
are now receiving medical treat-ment"
Most of the 350,000 people evac-uated
from the area remained in
make- shi- ft refugee centers, although
police said some residents on the
outskirts of the area began returning
to their hemes. ,
But authorities turned away other
victims who had hoped to inspect the
remains' of their homes in the San
Juanlco ndgliborhood, where the gas
distribution center is located, saying
i
Police fi9i caskets with fire victims from the neighborhood of San Juan. um" pho,
the danger from gas leaks was too
great.
San Juanlco. which housed some
200,000 people, is one of several
neighborhoods emcompassed in the
area known as San Juan Ixhuatepec.
y Police spokesman Hector Garcia
said the greatest danger is posed by
a gas pipeline that runs under the
distribution center to the surround-ing
hills covered with make- shi'- ft
homes and shacks.
If the pipeline were to explode, he
said, the area would go uo in flames
At the Guadalupe Basilica in
northern Mexico City, hundreds of
i
people displaced by tne tire came in
the hope of finding lost relatives.
Rosario Pedraza, looking lost
among the bustle, broke into sobs as
she told a visitor of losing her hus-band
and seven children in the fire.
" He is all I have left," she said
touching her young son.
1
State may lose
$ 1.6 million
from Medicare
By Kim Phelan
Mlssourian staff writer
In a move that will cost $ 1 6 mil-lion
in federal reimbursements, Ful-ton
State Hospital officials voluntari-ly
dropped more than four- fift- hs of
its bed units under consideration
from Medicare and Medicaid certifi-cation
in an attempt to remain in the
programs
Superintendent John Mayfield said
he withdrew 283 of the 343 beds from
the Medicare program last Thurs-day,
leaving only 60 bed units under
federal certification that provides fi-nancial
reimbursement indirectly to
the hospital through the state.
As a result, the state will lose
about 1 6 million of the $ 3 3 million
in revenues from the federal Medi-care
program received from Fulton
State Hospital
" It's complicated You have to be
Medicare- certifie- d in order to be
Medicaid- certified- ," Mayfield said
The hospital passed a recent Medi-caid
survey, which is less extensive
than the federal inspection, he said
However, the state will not grant
Medicaid certification to the hospital
unless it also receives the federal
Medicare accreditation
A survey conducted by Medicare
ui September indicated deficiencies
in most of the hospital, not including
the Biggs Forensic Center, the
state's only male maximum security
psychiatric faculty, Mayfield said
The federal program will eenduct a
follow- u- p inspection in December
" We don't feel we can meet the
Medicare standards in the psychiat-ric
staffing and medical records re-quirement,"
he said " But we would
like to maintain participation in the
program "
Mayfield estimated that at least
one board- certifie- d psychiatrist
must be available for every 60 beds
in order to be covered under Medi-care
Fulton State Hospital has only
half the requited staff, he said In or-der
to come into compliance, about
six psychiatrists would have to be
hired.
" It's very difficulfto recruit psy-chiatrists
into a state hospital, espe-cially
in a rural area," he explained
In addition, the Medicare survey
revealed deficient medical records
Treatment plans detailing staff
goals for patients were not specific,
he said Progress notes did not suffi-ciently
indicate the justification of
medication for patients or document
the changes in medication treat-ment,
he said
it doesn't mean that the medica-tion
wasn't given or goals weren't
set The staff just wasn't putting
enough detail into the record
There's reluctance to spend time
writing in a chart when you feel you
should be treating patients The doc-umentation,
as far as I'm concerned,
is essential But it takes a while to
get the attitudes changed with the
staff"
Federal guidelines stipulate that
the entire group of beds under con-sideration
must comply with the reg-ulations
or the facdity will lose the
Medicare certification The group in-volved
in the certification included
113 beds m the adult psychiatric
ward, 45 beds m the Cremer Foren-sic
Center ( minimum security), 30
beds in the admissions ward, 20 beds
in the youth center, 15 beds in the
emergency medical ward and 120
beds in the geriatrics care unit
In an effort to maneuver within the
Medicare regulations, Mayfield
eliminated 233 of the 343 beds that
would not pass federal scrutiny in
December while keeping only 60
beds in the geriatrics unit under the
Medicare and Medicaid programs
The move could allow hospital offi-cials
to concentrate on bringing two
of the four 30- be- d geriatric wards up
to standards
" Now understand, this does not af-fect
the availability and quality of
care," said Randy McConnell, dep- dt- y
director of public affairs for the
state Mental Health Department
" We never see the Medicare or Med-icaid
money It gees directly to the
treasurer When a hospital loses cer-tification
it just means we can't bill
the federal government The state
covers the individual "
The federal government foots 100
percent of the patient's medical bill
through the Medicare program,
which is designed mainly for the el-derly
and disabled, and financed by
Social Security money
Fulton State Hospital's govern-ment
certification problems arrived
in the wake of accreditation from the
Joint Commission for Accreditation
of Hospitals, a private organization
that sets nationwide standards for
hospital treatment and facilities In
May, the mental hospital became
the first state mental hospital in sev-en
years to gam its accreditation
from the JCAH
Considered the " Good Housekeep-ing
Seal of Approval," the JCAH ac-creditation
was given despite simi-lar
psychiatric staff and medical
record deficencies
" They gave us credit for progress
shown and potential progress, unlike
Medicare or Medicaid," Mayfield
said " But the staffing and medical
records still will have to be in sub-stantial
compliance by the end of the
three years when we come up for re- accrcdrta- tion
or we lose it "

j. " tf1A2TELOHfflR3TT0nUiHcC. lL SOCIETY
TgthYear --- No. 59 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 21, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
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-- ifBiSt b8kM m& Sf Ew fflffl jEl! fflffliwB8StM3S$ ftfiw& M. SraHSA
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iEAhSt 9p 1 mSbBs fSagTS 5t SBS' t) F . m- - j- - f. jjftmaiggifCttijfii vEflov vSBBB Bflffin tHBE." ,- - " . Jii ffnft y IHT 89& IHMBSKlWMKWgKSiWi' UKlJIMfBflBKfflBgjI
Season's aftermath
University employee James Hanvey labors hard to clean up Me-morial
Stadium following the Tigers' disappointing defeat Sat-urday
to the Kansas Jayhawks. Here, Hanvey lines up soda tra--
Kevin Grace
ys for cleaning Later, he will steam the trays and pack them up
for use during next year's home games, which include contests
with perennial powers Oklahoma and Nebraska
Priest jailed
FORTVILLE, Ind ( UPI) - A Catholic
I pnest arrested in a state police raid en a
I church bmgo game Tuesday called the ex-perience
" sad and bewildering," but said he
was relieved all charges against him were
dropped.
The Rev. Joseph S. Kos was released
from Hancock County Jail Tuesday after he
refused to be released on his own recogni-zance
Monday night
All charges were dropped Tuesday
against him and Paul D. Terrell, who was
monitoring the money in the bmgo game.
The two men were arrested, on misde- -
meaner gambling charges when five state
!
police officers raided the small town church
Monday night Police confiscated $ 653.35
from the game.
" It's very sad that there are many crimes
to be investigated here, and they are choos-ing
to raid" bmgo games, Kos said.
State Police spokesman Ken
Hollingsworth said police raided the church
after receiving a complaint about the gam-bling
and repeatedly warning the churcn.
execeiioii date, for Johns
Court rejects appeals
of two other murderers
JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) The Missouri Su-preme
Court Tuesday scheduled a January execu-tion
for the slayer of a St. Louis teenager and re-jected
the appeals of two other murderers.
In a two- senten- ce order, the court overruled a
motion for a second hearing of an appeal by Ste-phen
K. Johns. The court then set Jan. 24 for his
execution in the gas chamber at the Missouri
State Penitentiary.
The court rejected the appeal of hired killer Al-lan
J Bannister, also facing a sentence of death,
but did not set an execution date.
The capital murder conviction of Bobbie Gene
Stuckey was upheld m another ruling. Stuckey is
not facing execution, having been sentenced to life
imprisonment without possibility of parole for 50
years
Johns' appeal, first rejected by the court last
month, involved his conviction in St. Louis Circuit
Court for the 1982 execution- styl- e slaying of Don
Voepel during a service- statio- n robbery. The
crime netted Johns about $ 248
Johns and Bannister are two of 27 murderers
held under the death sentence in Missouri. Only
Johns and Maurice Byrd, convicted of killing four
people, are facing execution dates, with Byrd sen-tencedto
die Dec. 13
State prosecutors expect stays to be granted for
both Johns and Bannister, and that several years
will elapse for continuation of legal appeals before
execution of either killer becomes likely
No death sentence has been carried out in Mis-souri
since 1565
Bannister was sentenced to death by a McDo-nald
County jury for the 1982 murder of Darrell W
Ruesiman at a Joplin mobile home park
A Grundy County circuit court jury convicted
Stuckey in the 19S1 slaying of Larry Wilson, a man
he met who was trying to market hogs at a
livestock sale in Mexico, Audrain County Stuckey
told Wilson a farmer in Monroe County would pay
higher pnees for the hogs, and Wilson drove with
him to visit the prospective buyer.
During the trip, Stuckey attacked Wilson, using
a metal bar to knock him unconscious He later fa-tally
shot Wilson, and drove to Iowa where he at-tempted
to sell the victim's hogs
g& A JT& j
MEXICO CITY ( UPI) Army
troops Tuesday poked through the
charred ruins of a working class
Mexico City suburb in a grisly
search for more victims of gas ex-plosions
and fire that Red Cross offi-cials
said claknsd the lives of at
least 544 people.
Authorities said another 1,500 peo-ple
were injured in the holocaust
that erupted early Monday when a
gas trues exploded near a gas distri-bution
center in San Juan Ixhuate- pe- c,
one of several impoverished
towns clustered on Mexico City's
northern edge.
Ten thousand were left homeless
in file worst industrial disaster in
Mexican history.
More than 24 hours after the pre-dawn
explosions, small fires still
blazed in the barren neighborhood
and the smell of gas and burned
0esh hung thiefcin the air.
Chunks of walls, shattered glass
and broken furniture littered the
blackened neighborhood, where
whole blocks of houses were de-stroyed
Scattered on fee ground
were charred carcasses of dogs and
other animals, a human foot, and the
body of a horse burned as be stood
tiedtoaraOing.
Red Cross spdtesman Jose Cald- -
ron said the bodies of 544 pecpSe
1 killed in the Ore had been recovered.
He said that because of the severe
bums covering most of fee dead,
oiuy 317 bodieshad been identified.
I
Families sift nibble Pago 3A
" It is very probable that the death
toll win continue to rise," Calderon
said.
Hie state- ru- n energy company,
Pemex, said investigators had not
determined the original cause of the
disaster. It was triggered by a fire
on a liquid gas tanker truck that
spread to tanks of the Unigas Co.
and then to a Pemex gas storage
center. A Pemex spokesman identi-fied
the gas involved in the explosion
asamixture of butane and propane.
Residents reported at least a doz-en
explosions followed the first blast.
Yards from the blasted storage
center, which distributed gas for use
in homes, army troops dressed in
combat fatigues and 8,500 police offi-cers
walked tnrough the barren ru- in- s.
searching the rubble for victims.
" It smells like burned bodies," one
soldier told a reporter at one pile of
debris. " Well start looking here."
The group of soldiers, wearing face
masks against the stench, began
tossing aside cement chunks and
splintered wool in searched victims,
a scene repeated throughout the 146- mi- le
square area.
The pre- daw- n explosion sent bril-liant
red and orange flames swirling
a mile into the sky, transforming
darkness to daylight and sending
thousands of terrified residents flee-ing
their homes.
r-- f DealhTolB Rises h hi i n . 1 1 id I,, vi y i i u h i i i I..
I ill I I III I M lj IV M II I ll
I ll i iplo kjii
it ii ih in ul iili if
I) llhi il . it I it iiili liikmii hit is
it i fi Ijtucoea
C- " "
IIS Up,
Red Cross spefeeswoman Rosa
Maria Servin Ruiz said, " Another 1,- 5- 00
to 1400 people were iniured and
are now receiving medical treat-ment"
Most of the 350,000 people evac-uated
from the area remained in
make- shi- ft refugee centers, although
police said some residents on the
outskirts of the area began returning
to their hemes. ,
But authorities turned away other
victims who had hoped to inspect the
remains' of their homes in the San
Juanlco ndgliborhood, where the gas
distribution center is located, saying
i
Police fi9i caskets with fire victims from the neighborhood of San Juan. um" pho,
the danger from gas leaks was too
great.
San Juanlco. which housed some
200,000 people, is one of several
neighborhoods emcompassed in the
area known as San Juan Ixhuatepec.
y Police spokesman Hector Garcia
said the greatest danger is posed by
a gas pipeline that runs under the
distribution center to the surround-ing
hills covered with make- shi'- ft
homes and shacks.
If the pipeline were to explode, he
said, the area would go uo in flames
At the Guadalupe Basilica in
northern Mexico City, hundreds of
i
people displaced by tne tire came in
the hope of finding lost relatives.
Rosario Pedraza, looking lost
among the bustle, broke into sobs as
she told a visitor of losing her hus-band
and seven children in the fire.
" He is all I have left," she said
touching her young son.
1
State may lose
$ 1.6 million
from Medicare
By Kim Phelan
Mlssourian staff writer
In a move that will cost $ 1 6 mil-lion
in federal reimbursements, Ful-ton
State Hospital officials voluntari-ly
dropped more than four- fift- hs of
its bed units under consideration
from Medicare and Medicaid certifi-cation
in an attempt to remain in the
programs
Superintendent John Mayfield said
he withdrew 283 of the 343 beds from
the Medicare program last Thurs-day,
leaving only 60 bed units under
federal certification that provides fi-nancial
reimbursement indirectly to
the hospital through the state.
As a result, the state will lose
about 1 6 million of the $ 3 3 million
in revenues from the federal Medi-care
program received from Fulton
State Hospital
" It's complicated You have to be
Medicare- certifie- d in order to be
Medicaid- certified- ," Mayfield said
The hospital passed a recent Medi-caid
survey, which is less extensive
than the federal inspection, he said
However, the state will not grant
Medicaid certification to the hospital
unless it also receives the federal
Medicare accreditation
A survey conducted by Medicare
ui September indicated deficiencies
in most of the hospital, not including
the Biggs Forensic Center, the
state's only male maximum security
psychiatric faculty, Mayfield said
The federal program will eenduct a
follow- u- p inspection in December
" We don't feel we can meet the
Medicare standards in the psychiat-ric
staffing and medical records re-quirement,"
he said " But we would
like to maintain participation in the
program "
Mayfield estimated that at least
one board- certifie- d psychiatrist
must be available for every 60 beds
in order to be covered under Medi-care
Fulton State Hospital has only
half the requited staff, he said In or-der
to come into compliance, about
six psychiatrists would have to be
hired.
" It's very difficulfto recruit psy-chiatrists
into a state hospital, espe-cially
in a rural area," he explained
In addition, the Medicare survey
revealed deficient medical records
Treatment plans detailing staff
goals for patients were not specific,
he said Progress notes did not suffi-ciently
indicate the justification of
medication for patients or document
the changes in medication treat-ment,
he said
it doesn't mean that the medica-tion
wasn't given or goals weren't
set The staff just wasn't putting
enough detail into the record
There's reluctance to spend time
writing in a chart when you feel you
should be treating patients The doc-umentation,
as far as I'm concerned,
is essential But it takes a while to
get the attitudes changed with the
staff"
Federal guidelines stipulate that
the entire group of beds under con-sideration
must comply with the reg-ulations
or the facdity will lose the
Medicare certification The group in-volved
in the certification included
113 beds m the adult psychiatric
ward, 45 beds m the Cremer Foren-sic
Center ( minimum security), 30
beds in the admissions ward, 20 beds
in the youth center, 15 beds in the
emergency medical ward and 120
beds in the geriatrics care unit
In an effort to maneuver within the
Medicare regulations, Mayfield
eliminated 233 of the 343 beds that
would not pass federal scrutiny in
December while keeping only 60
beds in the geriatrics unit under the
Medicare and Medicaid programs
The move could allow hospital offi-cials
to concentrate on bringing two
of the four 30- be- d geriatric wards up
to standards
" Now understand, this does not af-fect
the availability and quality of
care," said Randy McConnell, dep- dt- y
director of public affairs for the
state Mental Health Department
" We never see the Medicare or Med-icaid
money It gees directly to the
treasurer When a hospital loses cer-tification
it just means we can't bill
the federal government The state
covers the individual "
The federal government foots 100
percent of the patient's medical bill
through the Medicare program,
which is designed mainly for the el-derly
and disabled, and financed by
Social Security money
Fulton State Hospital's govern-ment
certification problems arrived
in the wake of accreditation from the
Joint Commission for Accreditation
of Hospitals, a private organization
that sets nationwide standards for
hospital treatment and facilities In
May, the mental hospital became
the first state mental hospital in sev-en
years to gam its accreditation
from the JCAH
Considered the " Good Housekeep-ing
Seal of Approval," the JCAH ac-creditation
was given despite simi-lar
psychiatric staff and medical
record deficencies
" They gave us credit for progress
shown and potential progress, unlike
Medicare or Medicaid," Mayfield
said " But the staffing and medical
records still will have to be in sub-stantial
compliance by the end of the
three years when we come up for re- accrcdrta- tion
or we lose it "